Social Lites - April Sound

By Ann Marie Ricci

Updated
1:38 pm CDT, Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Our golfing community has been very busy with special tournaments and member play despite the rainy weather of late. The April Sound Church had a beautiful Sunday last week for the 30th Annual Helping Hands Tournament, which turned out to be a great success. There were 94 golfers and 162 dinner guests and the chairpeople are very grateful to all who participated in any way. Yesterday, Saturday, October 27th, was the Women’s Golf Association Member-Guest Golf Tournament all day. Then, today, April Sound has been chosen to host the Southern Texas Professional Golf Association’s Junior Golf Tournament. Over sixty young golfers will be traveling from all over south Texas to participate in this tournament on the white and blue courses, so that’s exciting!

On November 11th, Veteran’s Day, there will be a Patriot Golf Day here at April Sound. This day will benefit folds of Honor and the Bush Institute’s Military Service Initiative, and will give everyone an opportunity to give back to the brave warriors who have given so much. The day starts with a brunch at 11:00 a.m., shotgun start at 1:00 p.m. then ends with a cocktail reception after play. Check with the pro shop at 936-588-7220 to sign up for this worthy cause. Or, better yet, everyone, make a visit to the lower level of the Club and spend some time with our Walls of Honor where pictures of many of our veterans and active duty military are on display.

As we said in last week’s article, the Annual Halloween Carnival sponsored by the April Sound Civic Association will be held on Halloween evening from 5:00 until 8:00 at the April Sound Tennis Center. We can’t do it without much help! We need workers for Halloween Day to get everything set up. We need cakes, cupcakes and cookies brought to the Tennis Center between noon and 5:00 for our famous Cakewalk Game that will run throughout the evening. The goodies need to be packaged and ready to give away, please. We need volunteers to lead the many planned games and activities. If you could spare some time to volunteer - even for one hour - please call Helen Barricklow at 936-588-2033, Allyson Ayton Allen at 832-332-9626 or yours truly at 936-447-1336. I guarantee you’ll have as much fun as the And, all residents are invited to bring the little ones and come join in the fun sometime during the evening. See you there!

Kudos go to Sandi Preddy and Beverley Poltorak for all they did to see that the April Sound Ladies Association Holiday Market held all day last Wednesday went so smoothly. From the beautiful bright new signage, to the set up all Tuesday, until the last shopper left and the vendors packed up, these two ladies were right there doing it all! Happy shoppers came and went throughout the day and eleven gallant men from the Men’s Association spent most of their day driving the ladies back and forth from the parking lots and even helped with packages!